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HARRY S. BARTHOLOMEXV, OF BRISTOL, COXECTICUT.

CORN-HARVESTER.

Application tiled September 17, 18S-'1. (No modelJ To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, HARRY S. BkR'rHoLo- MEW, a citizen of .the United States, residing at Bristol, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coi'n-I-Iarvesters, of which the following is a specification.

'My invention relates to improvements in machines for harvesting and husking corn; and the objects of my improvement are to provide for the efficient operation of the machine in many respects, as hereinafter described. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is a plan view of my machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof on line x a' of Fig. l, the part-s in the rear of said line being shown in elevation. Fig. 3 is a front elevation thereof.

As shown in the drawings, the machine is designed for cutting the stalks at a point just below the ears, which arrangement I consider the best when it is designed to both cut and husk the corn at one operation.

The main frame of the machine may be of any suitable design, mounted upon driving wheels A, which are similar to those of a mowing-machine or harvester, and which, by

' the stalks slightl y backward.

a system of gears and connections, reciprocate the cuttingbar u, which with its connections may be substantially the same as in any known mowing-machine or harvester. I arrange the cutting apparatusB so as to be wide enough for cutting one row of corn ata time.

lBy the sides of this cutting apparatus, I arrange two vertical shafts, C, which are caused to revolve by means of the belt or chains b, running over suitable drums or pulleys upon the shalt D. rlhe upper ends of these shafts are supported in stationary bearings, which bearings are supported by means of the hood E. At the upper end of this hood are stationary cams c, and at a point lower down are other stationary cams c', which are supported by means of suitable braces, d, extending upwardly from the frame of the machine inside of the hoods E and at some little distance from the side of said hoods. Upon cach of these shafts I place a reel or reels composed of a series of gathering'ngers, e, the same being hinged to a slotted hub, which is rigidly secured to the shafts G.

The stationary cams are formed as most clearly shown in Fig. l, so that as the shafts C revolve and the ngers come over the most projecting portions of the cams, they (the fin gers) are thrown upward, as shown in the drawings, while as the said lingers come over the parts'of the cams having less projections the ingers fall to a nearly vertical position, as also shown in the drawings. The fingers in the lower reel as they reach the outside of the. machine fall to so nearly a vertical position as to pass around inside of the hood E and outside of the braces d d, while the iingers of the upper reel fall down nearly parallel with the sides of the hood. In both instances the fingers drop sufficiently to be out of the way of the adjoining rows of corn, while upon the sides which confront each other, and which are toward the cutting mechanism, the fingers are extended laterally and catch upon the corn and gather it inward, so as to presentit properly to the cutting mechanism. It is intended to have the lingers move a little faster than the speed at which the machine is drawn, so that they will not only catch the stalks of corn and present them to the cutting mechanism, but so that they will bend Underneath the front cross-bar of the frame work I set the knife f, preferably slanting a little, with one end forward of the other, so as to give a drawing cut, which knife is for the purpose of cutting oit' the stubs or lower ends of the stalks as the machine passes over them, and causing them to fall upon the ground under the machine.

As the corn is cut by the cutting mechanism B the iugathering fingers, after presenting the corn to said cutting mechanisn1,also carry it along to the rear thereof, keeping it substantially in a vertical position until the corn lies upon the slanting frame-work F. This framework is composed of a series of rods so arranged as to catch the stalks of corn, allowing the stalks to slant backward a little as they fall upon the frame, and then to fall downward upon the huskingrollers G G. These rollers are geared together so as to more in unison, and have a fiuted surface, as shown. Ihey are ICO VIO

set close enough together to pinch the stalks of corn which are presented to the same butt first, and then their revolving motion will draw the stalks through the rollers and discharge the stalks at the under side of the machine.

After passing the basking-rollers thestalks strike upon the curved apron H, which apron will slant the butts of the stalks slightly back-A into the rear of the hashing-rollers at a point,l

near the middle of thelength of said rolls, and upon each side of the middle the guard-rod y is sufficiently elevated abovethe rollers to allow the ears to pass under it as they work one side,in case they didnot jump over the mid dle portion when they were broken oft".

The broken lines h in Fig. 2 indicate the bottom of a box or receptacle back of the husking-rollers, into which the earswill fallas they are broken off by thehuskenwhilethe stalks and husks fall upon the ground under the machine. Anyvother receptacle for the hushed corn may be provided, or arrangement may be made for taking it from the-receptacle as fast as it may be desired.

Upon the front eross-picec of the frame I have also arranged two diverging'arms, 7c 7,

A be driven thereby as -ihe machine is drawn Instead of placing the vhashing-rollers immediately in therear of vthe euttingmechan-` ism, they may be placed farther back, or .at any other point of the machine, and suitable Y means be provided for properly conducting the stalks from the cutting mechanism to the husking-rollers.V

I am aware that a prior patent for a corn harvester shows but does not claim a set of angular arms `hinged to a huband arranged upon one side only of the cutting mechanismto revolve about a stationary cam with the shorter member of the arms resting upon a cam, so as to let the longer member of the arms drop when approaching the cutting mechanism, and then rise again to` nearly a vertical posif tion, so aste be out ofthe way, Acorn-har vester having such a set of arms ishereby disclaimed.

I have herein shown and described-,huskff` ing-rollers in combination with theacuttingf mechanism and ingathering mechanism; but I make no kclaim in the application-totally thing based uponthe basking-rollers, because,.- I haveL divided the caser and embodiedthe huskingrollers inv another -applicationwhichf` I am about to le as a substitute for theapg. plication Nd 106,619,- iiled September-17,

1883, andabont. tov be withdrawn',

I claim as my invention- A l. In a corn-harvester,.the combinattenantY cut-ting mechanism, the revolvingfshaftsf@ C,

fingers-secured to each of said: shafts, rand. the stationary cams upon which the :fingers bear, the whole combined so` that the ingers are successively raised as they come together over HARRY S.; .BARTHOLMEW Vitnesses:

MARTIN A. POND,- J our.TA EDWARDS, J r.

Vone upon each side .thereof,.a set of I.hinged- 9o the cutting mechanism and fall-intoa pendent--r 

